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Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's first true love was movies
"You've caught me with my pants on," Hugh Hefner said with a sad smirk. There are days (or entire decades) when Hefner greets the midday sun in silk pajamas and a robe, but on this particular December afternoon, well, the playboy just wasn't in the mood....Tags: Alice Faye, Newspaper and Magazine, Murder, Howard Hughes, Almonds
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Mysterious Stains And Menacing Ice Dams
The house where I live now has a little back room that was added later in the life of the structure. It's a pleasant space, but one senses that the rest of the house has never embraced the little addition. The rest of the house is a bit standoffish. In...Tags: Millard Fillmore, Metal and Mineral, Health and Safety at School, Massachusetts, Colin McEnroe
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Top 10 television Christmas specials
757-247-4730Whether you are ready or not, the holiday season is upon us, full force. If it's simply a matter of an open fire and time with friends and family, that is fine. If you can't get the open fire, then maybe the warm, radiant glow of the television is the...Tags: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Winnie the Pooh, A Charlie Brown Christmas (tv program), Gang Activity, Dr. Seuss
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Forrest J Ackerman, writer-editor who coined 'sci-fi,' dies at 92
Forrest J Ackerman, who influenced a generation of young horror-movie fans with Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine and spent a lifetime amassing what has been called the world's largest personal collection of science-fiction and fantasy memorabilia, has...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, San Pedro, Vice (movie), Folklore and Mythology, Steven Spielberg
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Baltimore bewitched
Tomorrow night after the kiddies trot home with their bulging candy bags, it's playtime for us adults.
Not only is it Halloween - it's Friday night. That means double the tricks and treats for the taking - from Halloween-themed concerts to costume...Tags: Broadway, Senator Theatre, Saw V (movie), Folklore and Mythology, Monsters
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New on DVD: 'Wall-E,' 'Garden Party'
Wall-E
• Walt Disney Home Video, 2008
A little robot, left behind on Earth for 700 years to clean up the mess people made by overconsuming and polluting, is the heart of this charming and clever Pixar/Disney story. As in "Toy Story," the...Tags: Count Basie, Benny Carter, Star Wars (movie), Organized Crime, Television
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'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!' starts its run here
How do you pack up a Broadway musical and take it on the road?
You get a really, really big suitcase.
The first national tour of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! officially opens tonight at the Hippodrome Theatre (after two preview...Tags: Music, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Jim Carrey, Theater, Fiction
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Michael McKean's L.A. home is filled with singing, dancing and music
Special to the Chicago TribuneHe once embodied shaggy-haired rock stardom as David St. Hubbins in "This is Spinal Tap." This summer, actor Michael McKean dons yet another long-tressed wig to play the aging hippie in "Superior Donuts," the new melancholy comedy from recent Tony- and...Tags: Katharine Hepburn, Lincoln Park, Santa Monica, Texas, Los Angeles
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Brooke Burke and Warren Sapp lead 'Dancing' cast in week 2
SunSentinel.comThis was the night to separate the good from the very bad. The rumba and the paso doble were the featured dances meant to display sensuality and aggression. Some of the contestants didn't get the message. On the other hand, some did, and proved they...Tags: Toni Braxton, Susan Lucci, Dancing, Dance, Warren Sapp
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'Mummy' director Rob Cohen unseals his list of favorite mummy movies
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterRob Cohen, director of " The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor," has long had a soft spot in his heart for mummies -- or at least mummy movies. In fact, Cohen, who's directed such hits as "The Fast and the Furious" and "Dragonheart," even produced the...Tags: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (movie), Bud Abbott, Stephen Sommers, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney
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Movies
BASIC CABLE "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" 5 p.m., TCM He's a brave, much-admired hero -- but only in his own mind, at least for starters. Walter Mitty (Danny Kaye) actually is an accountant whose rich fantasy life is his only escape from his doting...Tags: Virginia, Fay Bainter, Danny Kaye, Movies
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Will they become show stoppers?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWITH this year's Oscars still in jeopardy and the Golden Globes a televised disaster, Sunday's Screen Actors Guild Awards finally delivered the goods: top-notch stars, outrageous gowns and self-congratulatory speeches. But the nationally televised...Tags: Work Relations, Heath Ledger, National Government, NBC, Technology
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